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Delayed by Exhaustion

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Some of you already know this from my pinned posts on Facebook and Instagram, but I wanted to write a quick piece for anyone not on social media and wondering why I haven’t posted for a while. The shortest version of the story is that I fell apart from exhaustion sometime in early June, right after I finished and handed in a major project (one that I love, love, love and cannot wait to reveal to the world).
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Netflix Is Just the World’s Worst Video Store

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I just spent part  of a recent evening trying to find something new or interesting to watch on Netflix and failing as I clicked through endless categories. This is a short set of musings, drawing upon my 2018 essay “Your Trauma Is Your Passport: Hannah Gadsby, Nanette, and Global Citizenship,” where I discussed the rise of the streamer in one of its sections. I have a Netflix subscription. I’m not quite sure what that means anymore.
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Write for Strangers

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Over the last few years, I’ve encountered a number of books in all genres, fiction and non-fiction, that seem quite disengaged from their presumed readership. This appears to have coincided with an uptick in online “literary communities” where writers only talk to and write for each other. There have been several conversations lately, on social media and in actual publications, about the State of Publishing, accompanied by a lot of hand-wringing about How Bad Things Are.
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